Norah Seidu has always used fiction as a way to escape both her worries and the drudgery of reality - she's dreamed her entire life of being able to quit her day job and devote herself to writing the next great Simerican novel. So when she inherits Cliffside Crest Manor from a distant relative, she jumps at the chance to leave the city noise behind for the l silence of the desert, where she can live in comfort and write to her hearts' content. But all is not well in Strangerville...